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Uses : The fruit and the leaves are eaten. They have a pungent 



taste, resembling that of mustard and cress. 

 Salvadora oleoides, Dene, in Jacq. Voy. Bot. (1844) 140, t. 144. 

 Vern. N. : Jal (Macadam). 

 Loc. : Jodhpur : Mandor (No. 9101 !), Balsaraand (No. 9106 !), Phalodi 



(No. 9100!). Jaisalmer: Near Bap (No. 9099!), Amarsagar (No. 



9104!), near Devikot (No. 9105 !), Vinjorai, dunes (Nos. 9103!. 



9102 !), not very abundant about Jodhpur, much more common 



in the neighbourhood of Balotra. 

 Distrib. : India, Arabia. 

 Uses : The fr. is eaten. 

 Note : We have a specimen of »S'. oleoides from Barmer with partly 



opposite, partly ternate leaves. 



Apocynace.*. 



Wrightia R. Br. 



Wrightia tinctoria, R. Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. I (1811) 74. 

 Vern. N. : Kerna. 

 Loc. : Jodhpur (Macadam). 

 Distrib. : India, Ceylon, Timor. 

 Fr. at the beginning of the cold weather. 

 Uses: The wood is used for turning, making lacquered toys, etc.: 



the leaves produce a blue dye. The fruit is used medicinally 



(Macadam). 

 The following plants were found growing in the garden of Amarsagar 



(Jaisalmer) : — Flumieria acutifolia Poir., Lochnera rosea Reichb. 



ASCLEPIADACE/E. 



Pei-iploca L. 



Periploea aphylla, Dene, in Jacq. Voy. Bot. (1844) 109, t. 116. 

 Loc. : Western Rajputana (King). 



Distrib.: Punjab, Rajputana, Sind, Afghanistan, Baluchistan, Persia, 

 Arabia, Egypt. 



Glossonema Dene. 



Glossonema varians Benth. in Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. PI. II. (1876) 748. 

 Loc: Jodhpur : Balarwa (No. 6559 !), Kotda near Sen (No. 6566!). 



Jaisalmer: Jaisalmer (No. 6555!), near Devikot (No. 6556!). 

 Distrib.: Sind, Rajputana, Baluchistan, Persia. 



Calotropis R. Br. 



Calotropis procera, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, II (1811), 78. 



Vern. N : Ak, Akra, Akda. 



Loc: Jodhpur : Jodhpur (No. 6568 !), Osian (No. 6560!), near Badka, 

 sand (No. 6561 !), Barmer (No. 6563 !). Jaisalmer : Sodakoer, riverbed 

 (No. 6564!), Jaisalmer (No. 6565!), Shihad (No. 6558!) Vinjorai 

 (No. 6563 !), gregariovis and very common in sandy soil. 



Distrib. : India, Ava, Persia, Trop. Africa. 



Flowers after the rains and throughout the cold season (Macadam). 



Uses: The milky juice is used as u cure for coughs. The silky hair 

 of the seeds to stufl' pillows and quilts (Macadam). 



Oxystdma R. Br. 



Oxystelma esculentum, R. Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. I. (1811) 40. 



Loc: Jodhpur: Balsamand (No. 6554!). Jaisalmer: North of Jaisalmer 



(No. 6553 !), Amarsagar (No. 6567 !). 

 Distrib.: Indo-Malaya. 



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